September 22nd marks the anniversary of a storm. 209 years ago today, the wind was building over the sea off Boston while the skies grew dark with clouds. The next day, the strongest hurricane in generations slammed into the New England coast, causing devastation on Boston Harbor, in city streets, and in fields and forests all around the region. The storm is remembered as the Great September Gale, and it had wide-ranging effects, causing everything from a collapse in the local glass industry to a construction boom to an acceleration in westward migration from Boston and New England.

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The Great September Gale

• “An Account of the Violent and Destructive Storm of the 23rd of September 1815,” by John Farrar, The Quarterly journal of literature, science and the arts, Volume 7


• “For the North-American Journal. Account of the September Storms.” The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, 1815


• Pages From an Old Volume of Life, by Oliver Wendell Holmes


• “The September Gale,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes


• Hartford Courant, Wed, Sep 27, 1815 (quotes the Sept 23 Boston Gazette)


• The (Greenfield MA) Recorder, Tue, Oct 03, 1815 (quotes the Sept 25 Boston Gazette)


• The (New York) Evening Post, Wed, Sep 27, 1815 (quotes the Sept 25 Boston Gazette)


• The New Hampshire Gazette, Oct 03, 1815


• “Boston’s First Glass Works,” The Boston Globe, Sun, Jun 25, 1899


• Historic Storms of New England, by Sidney Perley


• A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, by Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff


• Good old Dorchester: a narrative history of the town, 1630-1893,
  
  by Orcutt, William Dana


• Early American hurricanes, 1492-1870, by David M. Ludlum


• 200th Anniversary of the Great September Gale